March 19 » Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
July 5 » Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
August 12 » Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.
September 26 » Morean War: The Parthenon in Athens, used as a gunpowder depot by the Ottoman garrison, is partially destroyed after being bombarded during the Siege of the Acropolis by Venetian forces.
December 31 » The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
Christening day August 10, 1960
The temperature on August 10, 1960 was between 10.4 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 13.1 mm of rain during 11.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
May 16 » Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
September 2 » The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
October 19 » The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
November 9 » Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
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